Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

The Canberra Modern Quilt Guild sponsored a challenge for our display at the Canberra Craft and Quilt Fair in August 2015. The theme was a monochrome (black, white and gray) “Modern Traditional” mini quilt 24″ square. I used QuiltSmart’s Little Lone Star fusible interfacing to make scrappy gradient lone star blades.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

I drew a full star out using the Clover water erasable pen. I used two layers of bleached cotton batting. The basket weave fill is based on Margaret Solomon Gunn’s grid based fills article in Machine Quilting Unlimited July 2015.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Progress Pictures

General Info

Start Date

Jan 29, 2013

Finish Date

Feb 2, 2013

Status

Finished

Size

Baby quilt

Pattern

Taking Flight

What it’s for

Gift for baby Lily

Batting

Cotton

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

From a $30 (on sale) kit from the Crafters Mall in Redding, CA. Pattern is not the best. Very brief and no layout diagram, which was frustrating. Fabric was all labelled though, which was very handy. I decided to leave off the last two borders and use the dark pink for the binding.

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Striped and flower fabric left over from table centerpieces from Grandma MJ’s 80th birthday (including some chocolate cake stains on some bits). White homespun from Sewco. Other misc fabrics from Spotlight sale table. Used a Victorian Textiles 6.5″ drunkard’s path template. Blocks were coming out very uneven, so ended up trimming down to 6.25″ to make them square.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Used Gutterman 50wt thread in white for ditch quilting and straight line quilting. Used King Tut “Cleopatra’ thread for free motion feathers.